Comments on: Visual memory http://charbonniers.org/2009/04/11/visual-memory/ A blog on consciousness by Janet Kwasniak Tue, 22 May 2012 02:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: mariana http://charbonniers.org/2009/04/11/visual-memory/#comment-372 mariana Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:20:40 +0000 http://charbonniers.org/2009/04/11/visual-memory/#comment-372 A recent study done analyzing brain images "suggest that observers have top-down control over which features are stored" because the activity in the visual cortex represented only the voluntarily stored aspects of the image. In this way, we can ensure that only the most relevant details of the world around us are maintained in this online mental workspace. A recent study done analyzing brain images “suggest that observers have top-down control over which features are stored” because the activity in the visual cortex represented only the voluntarily stored aspects of the image. In this way, we can ensure that only the most relevant details of the world around us are maintained in this online mental workspace.

]]> By: Mariana http://charbonniers.org/2009/04/11/visual-memory/#comment-352 Mariana Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:56:50 +0000 http://charbonniers.org/2009/04/11/visual-memory/#comment-352 Sure that what happens to vision memory happens with other sensory memories, indeed I do not think memory separates in part, it remembers a whole situation altogether. Our memory system is built so that we are likey to remember what is most important to us. In our everyday lives, memory is a natural in by product of the manner in which we think about an episode. Different people retain or recollect very different aspects of their everyday environment. Sure that what happens to vision memory happens with other sensory memories, indeed I do not think memory separates in part, it remembers a whole situation altogether.

Our memory system is built so that we are likey to remember what is most important to us. In our everyday lives, memory is a natural in by product of the manner in which we think about an episode. Different people retain or recollect very different aspects of their everyday environment.

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